The Sunday Edition for September 1, 2019

The Sunday Edition for September 1, 2019, with guest host Connie Walker

How former youth in care are working to fix Canada's child welfare system: Connie Walker speaks with Ashley Bach, an Indigenous youth leader, Arisha Khan, a Rhodes Scholar, and Melanie Doucet, a PhD student in social work. All three also grew up in foster care and are now working to reform the system in Canada.

Rebecca Traister on the revolutionary power of women's anger: Feminist writer Rebecca Traister argues that women have been taught to hide their anger. But, she says, to create political change, they must bring it out in the open and use it as fuel for action.

The untold story of Canada's black train porters: At the beginning of the 20th century, being a train porter in Canada was the exclusive domain of black men who laboured long hours for miserable pay. Cecil Foster is a journalist and academic whose book chronicles the story of the "Pullmen" of the Canadian rail lines, and their fight for social justice.  

Why aren't most women represented in the last names of their children? In the old days, there would be no debate. Father's last name. Case closed. But now that many women are keeping their own names, why aren't they represented in the names of their children? Julia Pagel's documentary is called "The Tricky One."

Patrick deWitt on the upside of clichés and why we need humour more than ever: Novelist Patrick deWitt's latest book, French Exit, is a tragedy of manners with an absurdist twist. It was shortlisted for the 2018 Giller Prize.